Ode to the Motherland
Lyrics: Wang Xin
Music: Wang Xin
Music style: March
The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the song of victory is so loud;
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
Across the mountains, across the plains, across the rushing Yellow River and Yangtze River;
The vast and beautiful land is our dear hometown.
The heroic people have stood up! We are United and friendly, as strong as steel.
The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the song of victory is so loud;
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
We are hardworking and brave, with a glorious history of 5,000 years.
We overcame all difficulties to get today's liberation!
We love peace, we love our hometown, and anyone who dares to violate us will be destroyed!
The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the song of victory is so loud;
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
The sun rises and shines, and the people and the country are growing;
Our leader Mao Zedong pointed out the way forward.
Our life is getting better every day, and our future is bright.
The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the song of victory is so loud;
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
Sing our dear motherland, and move towards prosperity and strength from now on.
Extended data
Awards:
1989, this song won the Golden Record Award of China Record Company.
Creative background:
This song was written in September 1950, which coincided with the first anniversary of the founding of New China. Watching the five-star red flag fluttering in the wind and flowers like the sea in Tiananmen Square, Wang Xin repeatedly brewed in his mind, and "Singing the Motherland" was completed in one go on the train back to Tianjin.
On September 5th, 1950, Wang Xin went to Beijing from Tianjin to buy musical instruments. When I passed Tiananmen Square on my way home, I was attracted by the golden sunset. Looking up, a bright red national flag is flying high in the sunset, which makes people excited. The inspiration of 32-year-old Wang Xin suddenly appeared in the first four lyrics. Wang Shen boarded the train back to Tianjin, his thoughts flying, singing, writing and beating the time. Lyrics and music poured out almost at the same time. At home, Xinhe Wang's wife, Wang Huifen, hummed at the same time, and Wang Xin wrote the second and third paragraphs all night.
This song is widely sung because of its bright and majestic rhythm. It has become the ceremonial song, opening song or closing song of various major events in China, and is known as the "second national anthem".
195 1 In September, People's Literature and People's Daily published the lyrics of "Singing the Motherland" successively, and then the Central Orchestra played the chorus of "Singing the Motherland" on China Central Radio Station, from which the songs were spread at home and abroad.
195 1 10 At the meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, when President Mao Zedong saw Wang Xin talking about singing the motherland, he said, "This song is good." He also specially gave Wang Xin a set of newly published Selected Works of Mao Zedong and signed it as a souvenir. Since then, "Singing the Motherland" has become a chorus song of New China.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Singing the Motherland